Chapter 287: The Deal Is Done
Li Wenyuan, who saw the merchant returning to Dunhuang County again, knew that the goal of his trip had been achieved before the merchant could speak, and since the merchant did not reveal his identity at the place of the Liver, it means that he must have obtained the intention of the Liverdish to conclude the deal when he came back again. Sure enough, the merchant handed over the note set up by Tong Lifu to Li Wenyuan. Li Wenyuan was overjoyed after he ruthlessly slaughtered the Livos. He didn't expect Liversh to really be able to pay the follow-up payments as promised, what he was trying to do was to pay him the 200,000 cattle and sheep that Liverfith paid to him in the first installment. Barter, apart from money, is most difficult to achieve fairness because of the value divergence that can arise between the perceptions of supply and demand between the two sides. Just like these 200,000 cattle and sheep are a huge amount of money for Philoshit, compared to the 40,000 elite Turkic soldiers who can get after paying, these 200,000 cattle and sheep are no longer worth a penny. For Li Wenyuan, the 40,000 Turkic soldiers consume a lot of grain and grass every day to eat and chew horses. In this way, Li Wenyuan, whose people under his rule were increasing every day, gradually felt the pressure, and after the 200,000 cattle and sheep were in hand, the trend of food shortage in Li Wenyuan's territory would be greatly alleviated. Moreover, the economic benefits that these 200,000 cattle and sheep can bring are far from what 40,000 Turkic soldiers can bring to themselves, so under the premise of mutual affection between the two sides, the deal was officially reached.
After the deal was made, the men with their own night owls took the 40,000 Turkic prisoners of war to the border, where they were stationed and waited for the Philosher to come and trade with his cattle and sheep. This is the first transaction between the two sides, but judging from the fact that the two sides once fell into the situation of sworn enemies who hate each other, the risk of this transaction is still extremely high, so in addition to the backhand that the night owl arranged in secret, Li Wenyuan also dispatched three cavalry from the army guarding the border and ambushed them around the trading point to prevent Tong Lifu from setting up a drama of black eating black. If these 40,000 elites were really robbed by the design of Lifu, then Li Wenyuan would really lose all his money.
However, Li Wenyuan obviously underestimated the status of these 40,000 Turkic prisoners of war in the eyes of Philoshe, and at this time, every soldier was his most valuable asset. Therefore, for the sake of the great cause in his heart, he will definitely not cheat on these things. If you really want to eat black, then it is true that you can save the expenditure of 200,000 cattle and sheep, but the last thing you get in your hands is the prisoners of war, there may not be 40,000 people, and you may not even get anything, after all, Li Wenyuan has such an organization for selling prisoners of war, which is well known among all the high-level forces. But for this kind of secret news that can only be circulated in the dark, and everyone may rely on this organization to save their lives at a critical moment, although all the high-level forces know about it, but no one has come forward to expose it. And on the contrary, if they can help these people in the dark, then those high-ranking forces will try their best to come and give the Chamber of Commerce the greatest convenience to the prisoner of war trafficker.
Of course, there is no wonder in the world. It is inevitable that some people will see these prisoners of war and want to rely on their home advantage to kill the night owls who escort the prisoners of war, and then capture these prisoners of war with empty gloves and white wolves. But although they did not think that the number of night owls was large, when they broke out, soldiers several times their size poured out from all sides. Because of the extremely inconvenient logistics of going out to fight, every time they traded, these soldiers carried not muskets, but Zhuge crossbows that had been delicately reproduced by skilled craftsmen for several years. And corresponding improvements have been made to make the repeater more portable while maintaining its original power. The actual combat use of this kind of repeater is not high, not to mention the Mingguang heavy armor, even if it is some armor made by the people privately, as long as the craftsmanship is reasonable, it can be protected against the damage of this kind of repeater. But since the Zhuge repeater was invented, it was not used to kill the enemy on the battlefield to win. It relies on disrupting the enemy's morale by firing a dense rain of arrows in a very short period of time, and then your own infantry and cavalry will take the opportunity to charge and defend to defeat the enemy on the opposite side.
Although the armor worn by the regular army Zhuge Repeater is not of great effect, it is still a great threat to the small princes who are fighting each other in the Central Plains at this time. Many craftsmen in the territory of these small princes were taken by Li Wenyuan to settle in the Western Regions early, so it was difficult to find a craftsman who could make iron in the territory at this time, let alone equip the soldiers of his army with armor. The better armies were able to equip the soldiers in the army with leather armor made of cooked cowhide, while the worse soldiers were covered with cloth. However, when Buyi faced the Zhuge Repeater, there was no difference between facing the Zhuge Repeater and facing the arrows naked, so under the rain of arrows from the Zhuge Repeater of the soldiers lying in ambush on both sides, these teams who tried to eat black in vain were hit by arrows and fell to the ground one after another.
But for those who want to eat black, just such a little punishment is obviously not able to achieve the purpose of shocking their minds. So the night owl who led the team decided to sell the prisoners of war to the rivals of the faction at an extremely low price, in addition to charging an extremely low cost price, another requirement was for the faction to destroy the previous buyer. The latter force was naturally very happy to see that it only needed to destroy its own mortal enemies to obtain a group of elite Hu prisoners of war at an extremely low price. So in just half a month, relying on these prisoners of war and his own army, he wiped out his mortal enemy like a wind and leaves.
This matter has spread widely among all the high-level forces, and almost all of them have a very high fear of this organization that sells prisoners of war, and dare not rashly carry out the operation of black and black anymore. After this incident, the prestige of the Hu prisoners of war became even more famous among the various forces in the Central Plains. Although he was in the grassland, he knew a rough idea of this. He is now very passive, and he is also very worried that Li Wenyuan will sell these prisoners of war to Tuoba Shishu, if that is the case, then he will fall into a more serious passivity.
(End of chapter)